At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

On a Norfolk shoreline, fragile human footprints briefly appeared before the sea erased them. Archaeologists captured the ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...

Early humans may have created fire 400,000 years ago, according to evidence unearthed at an archaeological site in England. Although there is evidence that early humans used natural fire in Africa as ...